Less than a decade after the establishment of the Gymnasium, in , the so-called Arts Department was founded. The Department started out with scholars and two professors of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Classical and English Literature respectively.
In , the decision was made to build a proper college building to create more teaching space. The new building was inaugurated on 6 November and renamed Victoria College in in honour of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, the year celebration of her ascent to the British throne. Over the period , Victoria College was transformed with the construction of various facilities such as the Physics laboratory, the Christian Marais library and buildings for Education and Science.
A college expansion scheme initiated in led to the establishment of research chairs in Zoology, Botany, History and Applied Mathematics. In , the first professor of Education was appointed. The adoption of the University Act in by the then Union of South Africa Parliament paved the way for the establishment of a university.
IAF Members. Be Part of the Conversation! Preference for all services. Social media Facebook, Learn more. Linkedin, Learn more. Flickr, Learn more. Save my preferences. Prof Wynand Mouton, a nuclear physicist and SU lecturer, became the first ever vice-rector, a new position. SU nowadays have four vice-rectors. The Langenhoven Student Centre was opened 55 years after the start of fund-raising for such a place of assembly for students. It was named in memory of the former student CJ Langenhoven and students started naming it Neelsie.
In it was reconstructed to become a shopping centre named Neelsie containing a variety of businesses. The new Conservatory Building in Victoria Street was inaugurated. The acoustics in the main concert hall is regarded as the best in the country. Prof MJ de Vries, former SU lecturer in chemistry, who had succeeded Prof Wynand Mouton in as at that time the only vice-rector, became rector since Prof JN de Villiers had to retire as rector earlier that year due to health reasons.
After the death of the vice-chancellor, Dr JS Gericke, earlier in the year, the rector, De Vries, became the first academic to also hold the ceremonial position of vice-chancellor, in addition to the position of rector. The vice-chancellor had also been the SU council chairman until Since then Council elects a chairman from its own ranks. The first test-tube baby in Africa was born, a breakthrough by a research team under guidance of Prof Thinus Kruger Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
He was the founder of a fertility clinic at Tygerberg Hospital. State President PW Botha was inaugurated as chancellor, but resigned from this position after four years.
Further expansions and developments followed later. Dr Jan van der Horst, a prestigious businessman, became the 11th chancellor.
As law student he had been the chairman of the student representative council, and since the first elected SU council chairman. In his speech, the first on an Afrikaans campus, he expressed, inter alia, his encouraging view of the role of Afrikaans in a new SA government dispensation. In , after Mandela had become president in , SU bestowed an honorary doctorate on him, and also in on his successor, President Thabo Mbeki. Prof Andreas van Wyk, vice-rector operations since , became rector and vice-chancellor.
He was a lecturer in commercial law, former SU dean of law, and a former director general of the state department Constitutional Development and Planning. The concept of a student centre such as this is described as unique in South Africa. The original building dates from Radio Matie later MFM became a fully-fledged community radio station with modern studios and offices in the Neelsie Student Centre, broadcasting up to as far as 20km to approximately 35 listeners, including the broad public as well.
The hockey club, one of the strongest sport clubs on campus, got a synthetic surface — AstroTurf — made possible, inter alia, by funds generated by the female hockey players.
The separate clubs for women and men amalgamated in Prof Elize Botha, doyenne of the Afrikaans literary world, became the first woman to hold the position of SU chancellor. We have a long and proud sports tradition.
Maties Sport aims to foster excellence in both the academic and sport performances of talented student-athletes, and to promote social cohesion and engagement in an active lifestyle among students and staff.
In order to inspire and be inspired, Stellenbosch University engages and collaborates with stakeholders, the communities we serve, industry, government and our university partners at a local, regional, continental and global level. As a tertiary institution, we are committed to South Africa and Africa and we are intensely aware of our role in and in relation to the international arena. Our collaboration and engagement approach is congruent with our values of respect, compassion and equity.
The largest number of these partnerships is in 39 countries outside of Africa and 19 partnerships on the African continent. We have an embedded culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, which forms a vital component of our research success.
The Nedbank-Stellenbosch University LaunchLab functions as a start-up incubator and business accelerator that boosts entrepreneurship through networking opportunities and mentoring for researchers, staff and students.
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